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The Method of Grace
The method of grace, in bringing home the eternal redemption contrived by the Father, and accomplished by the Son through the effectual application of the spirit unto God's elect, being the second part of Gospel redemption : wherein the great mystery of our union and communion with Christ is opened and applied, unbelievers invited, false pretenders convicted, every mans claim to Christ examined, and the misery of Christless persons discovered and bewailed / by John Flavell ...The method of grace, in bringing home the eternal redemption contrived by the Father, and accomplished by the Son through the effectual application of the spirit unto God's elect, being the second part of Gospel redemption : wherein the great mysterie of our union and communion with Christ is opened and applied, unbelievers invited, false pretenders convicted, every mans claim to Christ examined, and the misery of Christless persons discovered and bewailed / by John Flavell ...
London: printed by M. White for Francis Tyton, 1681
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Thirdly, The more easily any man can resign and give up his dearest earthly comforts at the call and command of God, the more progress that man hath made in the work of Mortification, Heb. 11. 17. 2 Sam. 15. 25.
Fourthly, The more power any man hath to resist sin in the first motions of it, and stifle it in the birth; the greater degree of Mortification that man hath attained, Rom. 7. 23, 24.
Fifthly, If great changes upon our outward condition make no change for the worse upon our spirits, but we can bear prosperous and adverse providences with an equal mind; then Mortification is advanced far in our souls, Phil. 4. 11, 12.
Sixthly, The more fixed and steady our hearts are with God in duty, and the less they are infested with wandering thoughts and earthly interpositions; the more Mortification there is in that soul. And so much briefly of the Evidences of Mortification.